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Toall 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known 'that I, FRIEND W. SMITH, Jr., a c itizen of the United States, residing Aat Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield; and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Aca count Deposit-Books, of which the following v isa specilication.

I which the next succeeding stance the vsecond leaf, is validated upon the My present invention pertains to an improved account deposit book, the construction and advantages of which will be herelnafter set forth, lreference being had to'the annexed drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book,

with the upper cover-board thrown back, illustrating tion;

one embodiment ofthe inven- Fig. 2 a similar view showing the first leaf removed and the second leaf validated, the cover-board ybeing broken away;

,Fig. 3 a perspective View of a book'` illustrative of another embodiment of the invention; A

.Fig. 4 a leaf; and

Fig. 5 a

similar view of the first removed like view showinvf the manner' in leaf, 1n thls 1nremoval of the immediately preceding'leaf.

.Of late therehas come into vogue a special form of savings account, now commonly known as Christmas accounts, Thrift clubs, and thelike, underwhich a specified number of 'paymentsis 4made during.' the calendarear, usually one a week, -and at the end o the'specilied period the .depositor is e ntitled `-to withdraw a fixed or. deter-4 mlnateamount, commonly the amount paid in plus the agreedinterest or `tn bonus on such amount. The' present 4invention has to do with the handling of such accounts.

" TheA main object of the invention- 1s to produce al bookV which lends itself to the I done or paid.

ready use ofkee'ping track of such aspecial accountfbetween a' banking `institution and a particular vcustomer or depostor, the structure being, such as to facilitate the transaction ,'betweenthe bank and .the customer at `each time of vpayrrient,and the making of such a record thatboth parties will have in thelr possession a recor of w-hat l1as been I nasmuch as most,"if'notA all, ififths accounts which the' bpok mayestablish require a-payment on vgiven days, .1t is necessa'ythat the payments be handled with facility, in order to, avoid delay and waiting on thefpart of the customers. j

Referring first to Figs. 1 and-2, 1 denotes; the leaves, preferably perforated as at 2,' to 60 admit of ready ,detachment of the leaf, land 3. the front cover-board. The latter will preferably have a table or schedule of ayments lappearing thereon and in the orm illustrated shows the number of payments and the date when each is due and payable. The coveriboard will also contain such other printed matter, as directions and rules, as may be desired by any particular institution employing the books. The leaves will .bear serial designations, as 1, 2, 3etc., and each will preferably vbear an account number, as 10,001, which number is placed against'the depcsitors name 4in the banks records: The leaves'ma also contain any'notice or vrule 76 found deslrable to facilitate the carrying out of the transaction and also any other matter such as Christmas Club and .$5.00, the latter indicating the total sum which is eventually paid inon the account, say in fifty pay# 8o Vthe next payment,as1ndicatedat4. Abliank 90 i l space may'beleft for the reception of'this L stamp, or it may be imprinted orl impressed on any portion thereof; in 'otherwords the entire face of theleafmay be considered a j 'w space for the reception ofAsuch imprint. 96

The bankof course, leaf vormakes a record of payment corre# spending to the mainin leave'sis returned to thedepQStor.

When 1t is again presented tothe bankLthe tellerwill atV once seethatj all preyiouspalys ments have been made,:this by reason.

validati g mark upon the then first iemain-V ;v ingvlea in the book.' The c orner-.fwill'y likewise besafeguarded. l' V f, e Figs.` 3, 4 and 5 the sameiscl'aemeI is" present in a slightly dierentcmbodment, VThe leaves in `thisinstance .are "showngas serially numbered, but this is'not absolutely 1310- essential, Each Sheet has thereon -a tiles away the removed 4 .i

leaf. The book with the rey I of numerals, from 1 to 31 inclusive, and referably, as shown, these are arrange' in spaces provided along each side or ed e of t e sheet. Each sheet will referably ave 5 an account-number and will iave the month within which itsiuse falls printed thereon,l

es,1,)ecember',v January, etc., there being at least the requisite number of leaves for each month. y When a depositor opens his account, the bank teller removes the first' sheet and punches the next coupon. If the vfirst date falls, say, .on December 26th,the teller, after removing thel first sheet, punches out the numeral 2 on the first January sheet, thereby validating said sheet and indicating the date when the next ayment falls due,to wit, January 2nd. gVhen the depositor again comes to the bank, on January 2nd, the teller notes that the Januar 2nd sheet has been validated, indicating t at the previous payment has been made and he, therefore, accepts it, alon with the necessary deposit, and punches t e next sheet in the s ace de- 25 noted by thenumeral 9 there`by va idating it 'and showing the next 'payment is due January 9th, and so on.

Thus, it will be noted that the bank is protected while the depositor is likewise pro- 30. tected, since he always has in his possession thebook whose deposit dates are vouched for by the .bank by advance validation.

In order to reduce the printing expense to a minimum, and .5to render the'books avail- 85 able fromvyear to year,'there may be five leaves forV each month, since in some years there will be five de osit dates in a month and in other years on y four. Also, each leaf has thirty-one punching spaces, because some 40 months have `thirty-one days and it is cheaper to` print .thlrtyfone spaces on each leaf rather than to print the proper spaces for each month. Each batch of ve coupons has printed thereon its proper month and where there are only four de osit-.dates in a month the teller tears out an casts away the extra coupon for that month when lthe last payment, to wit, the fourth, is made for that month. Inasmuch as the schedule of payments" is always before the teller', he can punch the proper number without fear of confusion.

Where'extra leaves are present-the leaves for each month might be serially numbered instead of being numbered consecutively throu hout the book.

Un er both forms described it will be noted that the validation of the sheet immediately following the sheet removed by the teller completes the operation and secures a record both to the bank and to the customer or depositor. Either arrangement permits yready despatch of the business.

Having thus described myv invention, what I claim is:

A deposit book adapted, by the validation of eachvsheet by a bank official, to indicate that the previous payments have been made and likewise to indicate the date of the next payment, said sheet thus validated bein ada ted to be removed from the book and retained by the bank as a record of payment ,as the next succeeding sheet is.` validated,

comprising a plurality of detachable leaves, said leaves throughout having a common designation and an indicia of the amounts to be paid and also belng sequentially marked, each leaf having a space for the validation thereof by the marklng thereon of the date when the deposit becomes payable.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

FRIEND W. SMITH, Jn.. 

